Eid Mohamed is Assistant Professor of Arab-US Cultural Politics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. He is the author of Arab Occidentalism (2015, I.B.Tauris) and the co-editor of Tahrir Square and Beyond: Critical Perspectives On Politics, Law and Security (2016).Ayman A El-Desoukyis Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. His most recent publications include: The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amara and the 2011 Revolution (2014).